Jessamyn on Nostr: Book 48: Orbital. This is a long prose poem, a tribute to space and the people who go ...

Book 48: Orbital. This is a long prose poem, a tribute to space and the people who go there. It nominally has characters--four astronauts and two cosmonauts--inhabiting a space station as it goes around the world 16 times. Nothing happens, there is no real plot. This is either up your alley or not. The writing is lovely and evocative, the "this is what space is like" stuff felt true. I kept waiting for it to "get going" and it never really did. Not really what I was looking for, but a good book.